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Fairview 



YONKERS, N. Y 



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DEVELOPED 

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The Manhattan & Yonkcrs Land (^o. 



20 EAST 42d STREET, 

New York City. 



J. H. Gordon, 

General Selling A^ent. 



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Copyright 1900 

BY 

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INDEX. 



Introductory 5 

Location— How to Reach Fairview 7 

Accessibility 9 

Healthfulness 11 

City Advantages— Schools 13 

Refined Surroundings 14 

Van Cortlandt Park 15 

Facts About Yonkers 17 

Peculiarities of New York 18 

The New Rapid Transit Road 19 

The Growth of New York 20 

The Magnitude of New York 23 

Fairview as an Investment 24 

The Desire for a Home 27 

Our Houses at Fairview 29 

Recapitulation 30 

Prices, Terms }\ 

What Well Known People Say of Real Estate 

Investments 32 



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INTRODUCTORY. 



Wl^ feel that in presenting 'TAIRVIEW" for the con- 
sideration of homeseekers, we are offering some- 
thing particularly attractive to the refined middle class. 

Fairview has unique, value giving features, lifting it 
into a class of its own. It is naturally and by virtue of the 
improvements which we are making, a high class property 
though offered at moderate prices ; and close observation of 
the suburbs of New York has engendered the sincere belief 
that no other equally good property is so cheap, and no other 
equally cheap property is so good. 

We believe that every reader of this booklet who will 
take the trouble to inform himself, will agree with that state- 
ment, and with so much proven, we are quite willing to close 
our case and submit it to the family jury— yourself , your wife 
and your children. 

Yours respectfully, 

The Manhattan & Yonkcrs Land Co. 



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. .. Fairview is located in the City of Yonkers, a 

Location. ^^^^^ distance from the New York Cit} Line, 
and directly at Nepperhan station on the Main Line of the 
Putnam Division, N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. (See map inside 
of back cover.) 

It is situated on a gently sloping- hillside and a level 
plateau on the top. The property commands extended 
views of the beautiful Nepperhan Valley to the North, while 
to the East and South are the rugged and picturesque West- 
chester Hills and Valleys. To the West occasional glimpses 
of the Palisades and the mountains of Northern New Jersey 
are to be had. 



Take Sixth or Ninth Avenue Elevated to 155th Street 
Station, there take train on MAIN LINE Putnam Division, 
N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. direct to NEPPERHAN 
STATION. To_ 

Or take train on Hudson River Division, Pgacf^ 
N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. at Grand Central Depot 



or at 125th Street Station and notify conductor Fairykw. 
that you wish to transfer to Putnam Division 
at High Bridge or Morris Heights. Time-tables will be for- 
warded upon application. 

We would suggest that parties desiring to see FAIR- 
VIEW, first come to our oflice. No. 20 East 42d Street, New 
York City, and we will take pleasure in showing the property 
and in giving full information. 




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ACCESSIBILITY. 



Fairview is only 22 minutes from 1 55th Street Station, 
New York City. From 15 5th Street, Elevated Express 
trains reach Rector Street in 34 minutes, bringing the extreme 
Southern end of Manhattan Island within less than an hour 
from your breakfast table at Fairview, or 
Convenient passengers may transfer to the Hudson River 
" ~ Division at High Bridge or Morris Heights, 

*2_i!i and reach the Grand Central Depot at 42d 

Points. Street in 37 minutes from Fairview. 

The commutation rate of fare is $6.85 
per month (about eleven cents per ride) which includes fare 
on the Manhattan Elevated Railroad to any part of the city, 
or if transfer is made to Hudson River Division the commu- 
tation ticket carries you to 42d Street. 

The Yonkers Railway Company has recently secured a 
franchise for a trolley line past Fairview, which line will be 
built this year. This will place Fairview in direct touch 
with the great Metropolitan Street Railway Company's Sys- 
tem with five cent fare into New York, and it will also bring 
Fairview within a few minutes ride of the Fine Churches, 
High School, Public Library, Theatre, Clubs, Social Life, and 
the large stores of Yonkers, a city of 50,000 people. 

The new Underground Rapid Transit Road now in pro- 
cess of construction will terminate at Kingsbridge which is 
now only sixteen minutes by train from Fairview. 

Van Cortland Park with its golf links, military parade 
grounds, its band concerts and other attractions is reached by 
train from Fairview in about ten minutes. 




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HEALTHFULNESS. 



In selecting a suburban residence the one consideration 
of greatest importance is— is it healthful? if not, if the 
ground is low and swampy and likely to be malarious, you 
don't want it at any price. Fairview is located 
among the " Westchester Hills," long celebrated High 
for pure air, and freedom from disease produc- r,-j.„«j 

ing germs, as well as from the wrath provoking - 

mosquito. 

People troubled with bronchial or lung difficulties find 
the air here a great relief from the strong salt air prevailing 
nearer the sea, and it is a common practice with city physi- 
cians to send such patients to Yonkers. 

The particular hill on which Fairview is located is 
shown by the Topographical Map issued by the U. S. Geo- 
logical Survey to be about 300 feet above sea level. New 
Yorkers will appreciate what this altitude means by compar- 
ing it with that of some well known high places in the city. 
For instance the highest point in the Murray Hill section is 
about 85 feet, on Morningside Heights about 138 feet. The 
corner of 15 5th Street and Amsterdam Avenue 148 feet, 
while on the upper end of Manhattan Island slightly 
Pure over 200 feet is reached. Fairview is supplied 
"~ with the pure, wholesome and abundant Yonkers 

y^ll^ city water. 

The genuine healthfulness of the City of 
Yonkers is too well known to need comment as it always 
stands among the cities having the lowest death rate and 
sometimes as high in the list as second in the United States. 



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To Live in the Country 

strictly speaking, involves the giving up of city advantages 
to which we have become so accustomed that they are real 
necessities. 

Few city people, for instance, would 
C\i willingly forego the luxury of running water 

in their homes with all the attendant com- 

Advantagcs. forts of hot and cold baths, and sanitary 
plumbing. 

To live in the crowded city on the other hand involves 
the giving up of the freedom, the fresh air and the restful- 
ness of the country. 

Happy is he who has the advantages of both city and 
country. 

Fairview is in the City of Yonkers, it is in fact nearly 
the geographical centre of the city, though suburban to the 
business section. It has free mail deliveries, police protec- 
tion, electrically lighted streets, and houses, Yonkers city 
water, pure, wholesome and plentiful. Protected by the 
Yonkers Fire Department. Telegraph and express offices at 
the station directly at the property. A telephone in a Fair- 
view house, connected with the Yonkers Exchange (over 
700 subscribers) costs only $36.00 per year. 

The public school system of Yonkers is 
unsurpassed by that of any city in the country. ^^"^^' 

A good grammar school is within two Facilities. 
or three minutes walk of Fairview, while the 
Yonkers High School, reached in a few minutes 
by the trolley, which will soon be completed, is a very fine 
institution fitting students for all colleges. A number of ex- 
cellent private schools and two business colleges are also in 
Yonkers. 



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Refined Surroundings. 



To be quiet, refined, homelike, or to be noisy, coarse, 



irritating. 

To have neighbors pleasant, congenial and friendly, or 
boisterous, disagreeable and dissipated. 

To have your children play with whole- 
*0 "^ some companions, or to have them taught all 

kinds of knavery and bad habits by a lot of 
— vicious hoodlums. 

Not to be. To meet well-behaved, prosperous look- 

ing people on the street, or to dodge drunken 
men coming from the corner saloon. 

You are buying a home, not for this season or this year 
but for life. It is not only how the neighborhood looks now, 
how will it look in five or ten years ? is it being developed 
upon a definite plan ? Or are the lots owned by Tom, Dick 
and Harry who will build anything that may please them. 

Are any restrictions upon adjoining property so that 
you know whether a gin mill may not soon be flourishing 
there ? 

Not only do these matters vitally affect the happiness 
and well being of the family, but upon them to a very great 
extent depends the future value of the property, and anyone 
fit to be the head of a household will ask himself all of these 
questions before he chooses a home. 

Fairview answers correctly every one of these interroga- 
tions. Not only is Fairview itself, consisting of more than 
one thousand lots, restricted and being built up by the 
owners in a manner attractive to the refined middle class, but 
the property on both sides of it is restricted in like manner. 

Beware of a "Hit and Miss" neighborhood. 

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Van Cortlandt Park. 



Only ten minutes by train from Fairview is Van Cort- 
landt Park, New York City's noblest dedication to the health 
and happiness of the future generations. Containing II32 
acres of land (nearly 3 00 acres more than Central Park and 
more than twice the size of Prospect Park), it is one of the 
largest and finest areas ever set aside for park purposes. 

The old Manor House and the Old Mill at Van Cort- 
landt are interesting relics of Colonial Days. The Manor 

House was frequently the headquarters of both 
P^st. Armies during the Revolution. The patriots under 

Washington and Rochambeau, and the British under 
Howe, Knyphausen and Tarleton. 

Here are one of the finest golf links in the country, 
bicycle paths, baseball and cricket tlelds, a large 
lake with boating in the summer and skating in Present. 
the winter. Interesting and instructive to both 
old and young are the evolutions of infantry, cavalry and 
artillery, as well as regular sham battles, which occur from 
time to time on the great military parade ground. 

Here also on summer afternoons will be found laughing, 
chatting throngs of people who have come by train, by car- 
riage and bicycle to listen to the grand open air concerts which 
are regularly given by the finest bands of New York City. 

Future. Van Cortlandt Park is, in time, not as far from 

lower New York as was Central Park in its early 

days. The actual growth of the City up to and around 

Central Park is prophetic to say the least, of the future of 

Van Cortlandt. 



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Facts About Yonkers. 

Adjoins New York on the North — the finest suburb. 

I^cached Comfortably by Railroad — no Ferries or crowded 
Bridges. 

About 160 Trains a day between Yonkers and New York. 

Commutation fare about S^c. a ride. 

Time from Grand Central Station 25 minutes, from Rector 
Street 54 minutes. 

Population ^0,000. 

Two National Banks. 

Two Savings Banks, one Trust Company. Safe Deposit Boxes. 

28 Churches — Methodist 5, Baptist 4, Catholic 6, Episcopal 4, 
Presbyterian 4, Reformed 2, Congregational 1, He- 
brew 1, Lutheran 1. 

Fine Public Library. 

Schools- Unexcelled, consisting of High School and I3 other 
public schools. Total value over $700,000. Numer- 
ous private schools. 

Clubs— Social, Tennis, Golf, Yacht, Boat, Canoe, Country, 
Bicycle and others. 

Hospitals— two. Finely equipped. 

Fire Department. I9 companies, 565 men. 

Ample Police Force, mounted and on foot. 

Abundant Supply Pure Water. Plant owned by the City. 

City is practically out of debt, its water works would sell for 
enough to pay all indebtedness. 

Electric lights, gas, electric cars. First-class markets. 

Manufactures carpets, hats, sugar, elevators, silks, electrical 
devices, etc. Over 10,000 operatives. Annual prod- 
uct over ;^2 1,000,000. 

Magnificent Drives, 63 miles of asphalt and macadamized 
streets. 

Telephone Exchange, over 700 subscribers, low rates. 

More than five million people live within a radius of 20 miles. 

Yonkers is directly in the line of New York's greatest and 
most substantial growth. 

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Peculiarities of New York, 



The peculiarities of New York have, of course, a very 
important effect on real estate values in and about the City, 
and conclusions which would be justified in an) other place 
might be very erroneous here. 

New York is unlike any other American city, geographi- 
cally, socially and commercially. Being located on a narrow 
island and cut off on three sides by bodies of water so large 
as to form an effectual barrier to growth in any direction 
except Northward, it may be compared to a great sack into 
which countless railroads and steamship lines 
Filling Up are pouring streams of people from East, 

T ard ^^^^' ^^^^^ ^^'^^ South. Like the sack it 

began to fill at the bottom which is at the 

Yonkcrs. Battery, and like the sack it is filling up 
" toward the top which is at Yonkers. True, 
there have been a few holes punched in it through which the 
smaller particles ooze out into Brooklyn and New Jersey ; 
but no opening can ever be made large enough for the pas- 
sage of great business interests. 

The enormous values of land in New York prohibit the 
owning of separate homes by any but the wealthy, and as a 
consequence the great majority of the citizens are obliged to 
live in flats and apartments or seek homes in the suburbs. 

The result of this condition is a marvelous suburban 
population, and most of the country near New York is thickly 
settled with people who earn their living in the city. Vil- 
lages, towns and cities cluster around the railroad stations 
and any "real country" is hard to find. 

Draw a circle around the New York City Hall at any 
distance from half a mile to twenty-five miles, and it will 
pass property of every conceivable kind and price. 

Not distance, but neighborhood, healthfulness, accessi- 
bility, govern values. 

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The New Rapid Transit Koad, 



March 24th, 1900, was a memorable day in the History 
of New York City, for on that day, in the presence of a vast 
multitude of people, the air filled with flags and banners, a 
spadeful of earth was turned over by the Mayor, the formal 
beginning of work on the Rapid Transit Tunnel. This cere- 
mony was really more in the nature of a triumphal ending 
than a beginning, for the overcoming of political opposition 
and prejudice of all kinds had been a more seri- 
ous undertaking than the actual construction of 
the Tunnel. The first spadeful of earth removed X2. 
was therefore "the beginning of the end" — the ^ . 
realization of the hope for Real Rapid Transit. !1^^ 
The City had grown so fast that it seemed as if !„ ic 
not enough means of travel could be crowded on " 
and above the streets to accomodate the people. Minutes 

so a road was to be built underground so mag- __I 

nificent in its appointments as to solve for many 
years to come, the problem of uptown and downtown transit. 
Ten thousand men with pick, shovel and drill were to dig 
away the barriers of distance separating the North and South 
ends of the city, thirty-five millions of dollars to be expended 
in a fresh air fund to enable countless thousands to live far- 
ther North in homes of their own. 

Underneath the ground, away from the delaying throng 
Of pedestrains, carriages and trucks, luxurious electric trains 
will shoot at a speed of forty miles an hour through a safe, 
clean, well lighted and ventilated tunnel. Neither fog or 
snow will be known there, rainy days will be dry and windy 
days will be calm. 

The Harlem River will be nearer the City Hall than 
Madison Square was twenty-tlve years ago. Fairview will be 
nearer than was Central Park. 



Note. — It is interesting to know that the street railroads of 
Manhattan Island alone, carried in 1899, more passengers, by 
far, than all the steam railroads in the United States. The 
figures are Manhattan, 656,582,128; Railroads of United 
States, 514,982,288. 



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The Growth of New York. 



All American cities grow, but it seems an established 
principle that the magnetic attraction of a city increases in pro- 
portion to its size, and this rule has held good in New York. 

Starting with a small settlement at the Southern end of 
Manhattan Island, the story of Northward progress has been 
repeated over and over again. The suburbs of one year have 
become the thickly settled residence sections of the next, 
only to be again transformed into business centres. 

Lots that only a few years ago were worth 
The West ^ ^^^ hundreds now bring tens of thousands of 

dollars. 

^j^jg In 1885 the territory West of Central Park 

— ■ — was so sparsely settled that only one lot in 

in '85 seventeen was built upon. Now, nearly every 

— — -' lot is covered by a magnificent structure. In 

188 5 on the east side of Columbus Avenue be- 
tween 64th and 95th Streets there were but one stone and 
two brick buildings. There was not a stone or brick buil- 
ding on Amsterdam Avenue from 83rd to 95th Street, and 
not one on 89th, 90th or 91st Streets. 

New York and its environs contained in 1800 about one 
eighty fourth of all the people in the United States, while in 
1900 according to the best obtainable estimate, one in nine- 
teen live in and directly around New York. The United 
States has sixteen times as many people as in 1800, New 
York and its environs has seventy-three times as many. And 
never during all that period has the Metropolis progressed 
with such gigantic strides as during the past ten years, and 
never in ten years as fast as during the past year. 

POPULATION OF NEW YORK. 



1653, 


. . . 1,120 


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. . 3, 609,034""! 


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The Growth of New York. 



Nothing perhaps so plainly illustrates the progress of a 
city, no evidence of growth is more indisputable, than the 
statistics of building operations. New York is so 
far ahead of the other cities in new buildings for 
1899 that a comparison becomes almost ludicrous. 
From the figures we have been able to collect it 
seems apparent that the cost of New York's building 
operations for 1899 exceeded those of all the other cit- 
ies of the United States put together. 
The following statistics of some of the cities will con- 
vince you that this estimate is not exaggerated. 



Growth 



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New York City, New Buildings 1899, 
Alterations, . . . 



Chicago, 

Philadelphia, 

Pittsburgh, 

Washington, 

Cleveland, 

Kansas City, 

Detroit, 

Milwaukee, 

Buffalo, . 



^20,856,570 
20,377,090 
7,201,215 
6,041,643 
5,488,728 
4,160,700 
4,002,680 
3,931,466 
3,409,489 



Minneapolis, 
Cincinnati, 
St. Paul, . 
New Orleans, 
Toledo, 
Atlanta, 
Allegheny, 
Omaha, . . 
Des Moines, 
Denver, . . 



$156,843,321 

10,149,107 

$166,992,428 

$3,003,014 
2,650,879 
2,597,488 
1,779,405 
1,462,525 
1,293,997 
1,254,125 
1,045,664 
720,452 
2,189,953 



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It will be noticed that New York's building operations for 
1899 were about eight times those of Chicago or Philadelphia. 

The assessed value of the realty, (land and 
buildings) in New Haven, Conn., is ^52,874,368. Growth 
New York's new buildings equalled this value in 
four months. 

New York's 10,979 new buildings for 1899 cost 
on an average ^14,286 each. This equals thirty- 
six such buildings every working day, or a buil- 
ding every thirteen minutes costing $14,286, more than a thousand 
dollars a minute, and these buildings doubtless covered an area of 
1200 acres in one year. Think of it 



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The Magnitude of New York. 



"New York was afterwards sold for twenty-Tour dollars, 
the whole island. When 1 think of this 1 go into my family 
gallery, which I also use as a swear room, and tell those an- 
cestors of mine what I think of them. Where were they 
when New Yoik was sold for twenty-four dollars? 

— Bill Aye, History of Uniled States. 

The second city in the world and the first on the West- 
ern Hemisphere, New York is so great that even its own citi- 
zens do not appreciate it. 

Its population January 1st, 1900, according 
Population, to the Board of Health was 3,609,634. More 
than that of Chicago and Philadelphia put 
together and more than the combined population of the States 
of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecti- 
cut, Delaware and Colorado. 

The assessed valuation of real and personal property in 
New York City in 1899 was ^3,478,352,029. A sum so great 
that it would take nearly all the money in circu- 
lation in the United States to pay one-half of it. Wealth. 
This is more than sixteen times the assessed valua- 
tion of Chicago, and more than the combined assessed valua- 
tion of Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, St. Louis 
and Cleveland. 

The Bank Clearances in New York in 1899 were 

^57,368,230,771, and in all the other cities of the United 

States put together $31,541,431,005. The daily business of 

the New York Clearing House was ^1 88,092,560. 

Business. Equal to handling all of the money in the world 

every sixty days. 

New York's manufactures far exceed those of any Amer- 
ican city and it imports about two-thirds of all the goods 
brought into the United States. 

These figures and comparisons might be continued indefi- 
nitely but enough are here given to show that in the race for 
supremacy. New York is far, far ahead of all competitors. 

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Fairview as an Investment. 



It is a source of satisfaction in buying a home to know 
that it has been purchased at a price which insures, not only 
your money back if you should ever desire to sell, 
Purchase |3^t a profit on the investment. A wise purchase 
^. . may, and probably will, make you a gainer of 

!lH5!yi thousands of dollars. 

The present value of Fairview property can 
be very accurately determined by comparison, a method 
which will naturally be employed, and one of which we 
heartily approve, because it will confirm our belief, that no 
other equally good property is so cheap, and no other equally 
cheap property is so good. 

The question for the futitre value of a piece r^^esent 
of property however, is one of keen judgment and ^^^ 
discrimination. 

Values in Real Estate as in everything else ruture. 
depend upon supply and demand. 

The supply of Real Estate is a known quantity. Demand 
is increased by increased population and development, also 
as conditions arise making certain property more desirable 
than before. 

New York City began at the Battery and has been grow- 
ing Northward ever since. Each succeeding year without a sin- 
gle exception, has seen its centre of population nearer Yonkers. 

The geographical peculiarities of New York make it 
impossible that the substantial growth, the great business 

interests shall ever go in any other direction. 
The The city is now almost absolutely full except 

the 1 2th, 23rd and 24th Wards, which extend from 
Supply. 86th street to the Yonkers City Line. The sup- 
ply South of 86th Street is therefore now exhaus- 
ted and the three Northerly Wards and Yonkers must now 
accommodate practically all further increase of population. 

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Fairview as an Investment. 



4057 acres in the 23rd and 24th Wards have been set 
aside for park purposes, decreasing- the available supply to 
this enormous extent and by making- that the Park section, 

increasing the demand. 

The There arc to-day in these three Northerly Wards 

582,910 people, a greater and more dense popula- 

Demand. tion than has the City of Boston. Great inroads 

have therefore been made upon that source of 

supply. Next comes Yonkers. 

Exactly what the demand will be we do not know. We 
do know that in ten years past New York and its suburbs have 
increased in population about one and one-half millions, which 
means that every day homes have been provided for over four 
hundred people. Nobody doubts that the increase in the next 
ten years will be much greater. 

We know that Rapid Transit is now assured, that thirty- 
five millions of dollars are to be spent in order that residents 
of upper New York may reach their business more easily and 
quickly. We believe that this alone will double or quadruple 
the demand for property in the North end. 

We know that anything like what seems Progress 
the inevitable demand for property there will 
increase values wonderfully. Travels by 

The natural tendency of a growing city is to 
follow along the lines of easiest communication. Railroad. 
the population along lines of Railroad is, about 
New York, miles in advance of the more inaccessible localities. 

Fairview is directly at a railroad station. It is more 
easily reached from downtown to-day than most sections in 
the 23rd and 24th Wards, it is far lower in price than prop- 
erty there. It is restricted, insuring the character of the 
neighborhood. It is in a city of 50,000 people thus gaining 
great advantages over ordinary suburbs. In short it has 
advantages which bespeak its full share of prosperity. How 
can it be other than a good investment ? 



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"HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL 
IN THE HUMAN BREAST/' 

The average New Yorker lives in an apartment or a flat. 
As a rule he does not expect that he will always continue to 
do so. He regards it only as a temporary arrangement, a 
makeshift which will do for a time — until he can have a 
Home — a home that will be his own, this year and next year, 
a home that his children will grow up to remember and to 
love. His home must be visited by that greatest 
Tu of physicians, the bright sunlight. The pure air 

== — must circulate freely through it, driving disease and 

Desire death to more congenial quarters. 

There must be plenty of out -door exercise for 
^^^ ^ the children, for in their early life is fixed their 
Home, physical destiny — whether they have to fight life's 

l3attle hearty, vigorous and forceful, or as puny, 

inanimate weaklings. 

The "flat dweller" is tired of his narrow, cramped quar- 
ters, he wants to be independent of the petty tyrannies of 
landlords and janitors, he wants more "elbow room," "a place 
to put things," a "den" of his own, he wants a piazza where 
he may enjoy the long summer evenings with his family, a 
little lawn with green grass and a few flowers. 

He thinks of Merry Christmas at home, his relatives have 
come to dinner, the children are having a hilarious romp with 
their little cousins. How happy everybody is. How heartily 
he is congratulated upon having such a delightful home, and 
how proud he is of it. He dreams of another Christmas 
when the children shall have grown up and have homes of 
their own, yet they come "home" for Christmas, little cous- 
ins too are playing together as merrily as of old, but they are 
not the same little cousins. 

Is there nothing to live for, better than assortment of 
rent receipts .? 

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Our Houses at Fairvicw. 



The greater part of Fairview will be built up and offered 
for sale in its improved condition, thus insuring the quality 
and standard of the houses. 

We shall not attempt in this booklet to describe 

Look any particular house or houses, but will simply give 

the reader an idea of the standard of quality which 

at we are following. (See cuts on pages 22, 26 and 

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*^^^- We shall be very glad to show you at any time 

such houses as we may have unsold and to name 

prices for them. We aim to make our houses comfortable, 

convenient and pleasant. 

We wish to make every room light and airy. We know 
that people like a piazza to sit on, that they like the cleanli- 
ness of hardwood floors in living rooms, the comforts of 
modern plumbing and the convenience of electric lighting, and 
all these are found in our houses. 

We build no house on a single lot of ground consequently 
we are able to give a greater variety of arrangement than is 
possible with narrower houses. 



Our lioLises are of frame construction as is fitting in a su- 
burban home, the frame is first covered tight with good 
matched boards, which are then covered with heavy buil- 
ding paper after which come the clapboards or shingles as 
the case may be, they are painted with pure lead and oil. 
The foundations are of stone, cellars high and light and well 
cemented, in all living rooms we use hardwood trim and 
polished hardwood floors, laid over common floors, greatly 
increasing the warmth of the house. 

Houses are heated by good furnaces and lighted by elec- 
tricity. They are provided with combination gas and elec- 
tric fixtures, and nicely decorated. The plumbing is exposed 
nickel and bathtub enamelled, laundry tubs are stone. 
Good ranges are provided. 

We grade and sod or seed the lawns, plant shade trees and 
lay sidewalks, in short we finish the houses inside and out, 
ready to move into. 

No 

We grade and macadamize the streets and 

curb and^pave the gutters at our own expense Extra 

under the supervision of the proper city author- 

ities, relieving purchasers of all this expense. Expense. 

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FAIRVIEW AS A HOME IS DESIRABLE. 



Because 

It is Accessible 

It is Healthful 

It is I^cstrictcd 

It Has Country Surroundings 

City Advantages 

Schools 

Prices Moderate 

Quality High 



56 minutes from Wall Street, 
directly at station. 
300 feet above sea level among 
the Westchester Hills. 
So are the lots on both sides 
of it. 

Detached houses, plenty of 
fresh air and sunlight. 
City water, electric lights, ma- 
cadam streets, police and fire 
protection, mail delivery, etc., 
etc. 

Good grammar school close 
by, Yonkers High School. 
No other equally good proper- 
ty so cheap — no other equally 
cheap property so good. 



FAIRVIEW AS AN INVESTMENT IS DESIRABLE. 



Because 

New York is Moving Toward It 



New York 



is Fill^^ 



Never Grew so Fast as Now 



The l^apid Transit l^oad 



Its Natural Advantages 
Being at a Station 

It is Now Cheap 

Its Value Must Increase 



Growing Northward about one 
mile a year. 

Except the three Northerly 
Wards and they have a greater 
population than the City of 
Boston. 

New York and its suburbs in- 
creased about 1,500,000 in ten 
years past. 

Will immeasurably hasten the 
Northward growth of New 
York. 

Will attract people to it. 
It will be quick to feel the 
eifect of increased population. 

Cannot decrease. 



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In Conclusion. 



If this booklet shall have given you a sufficiently com- 
prehensive idea of Fairview so that you will come to us 
desiring- to see the property and to know more about it, it 
will have accomplished its mission. 

If you will come with us to see Fairview, it will show 
for itself what it is to-day, and if in addition you will care- 
fully consider the outlook for the future, we believe that your 

judgment will make you a buyer. 

^^iC^S It is impracticable to publish prices, which will 

of course be constantly advancing- with the devel- 

^"" opment of the property, but we shall ask only a 

Terms, fair business profit, and having purchased Fairview 

several years ago at a very advantageous figure we 

are in a position to name very reasonable prices. 

Nor have we any fixed terms. We realize, that most in- 
stalment schemes are carefully thought out to the end that the 
buyer, in one way or another pays dearly for the accommo- 
dation, so we have avoided any "schemes" whatever. We 
prefer to make a fair and reasonable price for a house or lots, 
and accommodate the terms to the buyer's pocketbook. We 
can say here, however, that to the right people wc will make 
terms as easy as anyone can afford to. If you have but little ready 
money, tell us just how you are situated and we will endeavor 
to accommodate you. We care more about selling- Fairview 
to desirable people than about the amount they can "pay 
down." Prices will be given upon application. 

We shall consider it a pleasure to go with you to see the 
property at any time, and to let Fairview, by its manifest 
advantages, "do the rest." 

The Manhattan & Yonkcrs Land Co.» Owners, 

20 EAST 42d STKEET, 
J. H. GORDON, NEW YORK CITY. 

General Selling Agent. 

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SOME SUCCESSFUL PEOPLES' 
IDEAS OF REAL ESTATE 

MRS. HETTY GREEN: 

"I think Real Estate is the best investment for people 
who have only a few thousand dollars and want to make 
as much by it as they honestly can." 

ANDREW CARNEGIE; 

"As I have said to workingmen and to ministers, college 
professors, artists, musicians and physicians and all the 
professional classes, "Do not invest in any business con- 
cern whatever ; the risks of business are not for such as 
you. Buy homes for yourselves first, and if you have 
any surplus buy another lot or house or take a mortgage 
upon one, or upon a railway, and let it be a first 
mortgage, and be satisfied with moderate interest." 

ROSWELL P. FLOWER: 

"Real Estate is the best investment for small savings." 

HENRY CLEWS: 

"Be wise while you have the chance. Invest in good 
property lying close to New York, where the population, 
growing mightily as it is, will need your property soon, 
and will pay you a large price for it." 

JOHN JACOB ASTOR: 

The Astor millions, were chiefly made, as is well known, 
in Real Estate. Read what W. O. Stoddard says in his 
"Men of Achievement," regarding the policy of the first 
John Jacob Astor, the founder of that vast fortune: 
"Whatever capital could be spared from other operations 
he continually invested in Real Estate, a little outside, 
for the greater part of the ideas of other buyers. Some 
indeed, was for immediate improvement and he built 
upon it, but more belonged to the city of the future 
which his prophetic eyes were looking at." 

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OWNED AND DEVELOPED BY THE MANHATTAN AND YONKERS LAND CO., 20 EAST 42° ST., NEW YORK CITY. 

J. H. GORDON, GENERAL SELLING AGENT. 



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